Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal 267
walterbyrd writes "Pamala Jones, at groklaw, totally rips apart the Novell/Deal patent protection deal. From the article: 'Justin Steinman reveals that to market their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server against Red Hat they ask, "Do you want the Linux that works with Windows? Or the one that doesn't?" It's just appalling. Let me ask you developers who are kernel guys a question: When you contributed code to the kernel, was it your intent that it be used against Red Hat? How about the rest of you developers? Is that all right with you, that your code is being marketed by Novell like that? I also have questions about antitrust issues, with Microsoft being Novell's partner in such deals and sales pitches. Nothing speaks louder about Microsoft's true determination never to be actually interoperable than this conference.'"
Re:I don't mean to.. (Score:3, Funny)
It seems like a lot of the tech writers in big media don't bother doing the type of digging that PJ is known for and instead wait for her to do a most of the real work before they decide whether or not to voice their own opinions.
Strike the bit about "deciding whether or not to voice their own opinions" and you perfectly describe the "blogging" community.
Re:Shock! Horror! (Score:3, Funny)
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Edsel = Vista (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft Platform Strategy (Score:1, Funny)